Ok, so she burned her hand last night with molten sugar.
No big deal, right? Other than finally falling asleep at 3am with her hand in a glass of ice water in the pulled-out drawer of her nightstand, no, no big deal.
This morning her paw was feeling pretty good sort of decent so she decided to put on makeup for work.
She sharpened the eye-liner so it’d be easier to put on with the burned right hand.
And promptly slipped and stabbed herself in the eye.
I swear, we’re going to have to put a padded helmet on her, protective eyewear, oven mitts, and corks on the tines of her forks to protect her from herself. She’s not allowed to call me a klutz anymore.
Sugar burns suck mightily….worse even than solder burns. And the sugar burns heal more slowly – probably from , well, all that friggin’ sugar.
(I wonder, if they used sugar for flux and you got a solder burn from that, would it heal more slowly too?)
(The FDA would NEVER approve sugar flux – just on general principles.)
(…unless it was made from high-fructose corn syrup.)
CW has my complete sympathy. Perhaps you two should call the sitter and go out to dinner tonight and muse on your various war wounds.
Poor CW…. I know what she is feeling. Sugar and solder burns both (since I work with stained glass). I hope she gets to feeling better soon.
Poor CW. Sounds like days I’ve had. Except that lately I’ve been doing the more mundane knife wounds. I sometimes think I need to keep a helmet and oven mitts around for when I have days like that. Then I can just sit in a padded chair and have someone feed me.
I’d recommend cervical collar with full spinal immobilization. I’m not a professional, but I slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night…
Actually, aloe vera is great for burns according to Wife. Take a stalk, cut it in half, and smear the juice on the burn.
Yep, aloe-vera is good, but Water-Gel is better. It has loads and loads of natural 2.5% lidocaine.
Will look for that and add it to my bug-out-bag. Thanks for the hint. Probably easier to carry than an aloe plant…
Yes, aloe plants become squishy after just a few minutes in one’s pocket or briefcase whereas a packet of WaterGel stays fresh for… uh… doesn’t say… well, a long time, anyway.
Thanks, everyone. I got rather lucky. There was a limited amount of sugar, and a limited amount of heat to dump into my skin (as opposed to unlimited heat from an oven burn). It was semi-molten, but more than hot enough to give me a half inch blister on my middle finger. Once I finally fell asleep, it was much better in the morning…hence accident number two. No scratched cornea. Just a really irritated eye. (Ibuprofen is a miracle drug.)
LK is going to have to face it, though. I’m still going to call him a klutz. How many other people do you know of who dropped a food processing blade on his ankle, resulting in one (1!) stitch, and took a mattox axe to the head because he forgot to take it down while pounding more nails in the concrete wall to hang more tools? That trumps my accidents hands-down. 😉
Ok, first of all, the food processor blade was a stab wound and only stopped because the blade hit bone. I’ve cut myself deep many times but sinking a blade and having it stop when the tip goes “thunk” into your ankle.
Second, it wasn’t a mattock, it was a pulaski. And I didn’t forget. I noticed it and became distracted momentarily.
Third, a limited amount of really hot heat spread out over a square inch of skin that causes a second degree burn is still a second-degree burn complete with all the rights and privileges (pain and suffering) that comes with the title. Meaning, a burn is a burn is a burn. A burn of any other name would sting just as neat.
Mattock, pulaski, I can never keep them straight! Okay, I agree that I got the burn by being careless, and the poke in the eye by being vain. At least I haven’t reached the heights of my sister yet!
Sorry, dude, but spilt blood trumps second degree burn and a poke in the eye every time.
You get to keep your Klutz title 😉
Sheesh. You stick your arm in a veneer-drying machine, hit yourself in the head with a pulaski, stab yourself with a cuisinart blade, bury an exacto-knife blade in your arm, break your nose, take a bad road rash, and drop a 225lb weight on your sternum one time … each… (OK, the road rash multiple times) and you’re branded as a klutz for life.
Gracious! Sounds like the whole fambly needs Thudguards! Get well soon and be more careful CW!
Oh, THAT would be a real fashion statement!
Enas, where in hell did you find those? HOW did you find them?
I’d pay good money to follow CW around for a day while she wore one while shopping.
Oh I was introduced to Thudguards years ago by a blogger who used to find the oddest stuff. He quit some while back.